CoST (Control Strategy Tool)

CoST (Control Strategy Tool) allows users to estimate the emission reductions and costs associated with future-year control scenarios, and then to generate emission inventories with the control scenarios applied. CoST is a component of the Emissions Modeling Framework (EMF), which is currently used by EPA to solve many of the long-standing complexities of emissions modeling. Emissions modeling is the process by which emissions inventories and other related information are converted to hourly, gridded, chemically speciated emissions suitable for input to an air quality model. The EMF supports the management and quality assurance of emissions inventories and emissions modeling-related data, and also the running of SMOKE to develop air quality model inputs.